I’ve been using it as my homepage. It allows you to search Google and other engines without AI summaries, it gives you your IP address and just enough weather info without being obtuse, it loads quickly, and has a timer, stopwatch, scratchpad and conversion table for imperial to metric ect.
Ayyy it is so awesome to see how much Australians are contributing to the cyber space, I have lost count of the amount of times I have seen Aussies being mentioned in just this past week
It takes you to a random web 1.0 site that has somehow survived all this time.
And it led me to this site, a public voice-mail:
This is amazing, it took me to a US battleship website and then enrons website
A good chuck of these sites are autism special interest sites.
Hey, would you like every single schematic of Chernobyl with a through explanation? Sites like that are floating around in there.
And then a website about proving the existence of sea monsters…
Does Lemmy count?
I mean not in this thread, but generally yeah
https://p2r3.github.io/convert/
convert anything to anything, make excel file into pdf, 3d print the bee movie. no more rules
Finally, I can 3D print a PDF of an insurance form!
ikr !!! some youtuber guy made it and made a video too
Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden
Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer
Ive loved radio garden for a few years now. Its so fun to just click a random city in the world and just listen to whatever they are doing. I remember randomly listening to a music station from some island above scotland for an entire day and came out of it with like 10 bands i had never heard of before that are now a part of my rotation.
Don’t know if it’s still around and can’t remember the domain, but there was a site called World Radio Network that rebroadcast shortwave radio from around the world. Also great for language learning. The Polish Radio Service and Vatican Radio even had programs in Esperanto. A Finnish station had a Latin program, and of course so did Vatican Radio.
It’s the weirdest shit I’ve ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I’ve been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It’s just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one’s hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it’s all there.
I’m sure there’s some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.
Then there’s always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
What is a carry on bag?
What is carrying capacity?
How much can a horse carry?
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like “What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?” and “How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?”
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I’m struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it’s the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don’t understand it.
Hide this from Skynet.
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
I think it’s for n-dimensional beings trying to understand lower dimensional existence
But they’d have written it in alienese. That’s why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they’d naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.
Are these downloadable as stp files?
I think they’re only 2D.
Ah yes I see that now.
This is for architects and designers. There used to be books that had these dimensions and stats that were ungodly expensive at the time.
Why do architects and designers need a description of what carrying boxes is? Why do they need tips on senior mobility? It’s weird.
Why do architects and designers need a description of what carrying boxes is?
Say you work for a firm that mostly does office buildings. This firm hasn’t done a building with a mail room in decades, but now has a project with a mail room for whatever reason. There is no one at the office that would know this info, so you need to look it up. For safety and liability, you have to design for ergonomics. You use the 2d drawings for your details and elevations that explain it.
Why do they need tips on senior mobility?
Similar, the firm does hospitals, but was asked to do a senior living home. There are very specific requirements for elderly living. There are classes on this alone for architects and designers. If you are an older designer, you might need to know new info and studies out there. You use these for elevations so you can design heights and materials and finishes for the elderly. For example, if all of the colors are the same for the hallway, the elderly won’t be able to distinguish between the floor and the walls.
It sounds like you’ve never known an architect or designer before. There is a lot of information going on in their heads, especially for healthcare or anywhere there needs to be repetitive work done. Architects and designers are liable for what goes into their drawings. They’re contracts.
Fair enough. Those were bad examples. Explain this one, under “thinking”:
How do you stop thinking about someone?
To stop thinking about someone look for closure. Other methods may include finding someone else to think about, thinking of their negative traits, staying busy, and most importantly, respecting yourself. In the end, remember that it will all pass, and while there might not be a short term plan, patience and initiative will go a long way.
I’ve never met an architect before, so maybe you can give me a plausible reason they’d need to know about closure.
Here’s an entry from “looking”:
What does “Here’s looking at you, kid” mean?
The phrase “Here’s looking at you, kid” is fondly remembered from Rick’s famous line from the film Casablanca. The phrase means that he/she is happy the other person is there, and that the other person looks attractive.
Or how about this one under “comic books & video games”?
Are comic books better than movies?
Comic books are typically better than movies due to a variety of reasons that include cost and time, the personal vision of the author and artists, as well as their experimental and bold nature. Comics also deeply care about their viewers as well as create an engaging and active process.
I just can’t imagine how a designer would use this.
Those are the first examples you’ve given that don’t make sense. All of the other ones were straight out of our reference books. II have no idea about the others. Is it open sourced info where people didn’t get the memo on how to add to it?
According to the people in my office nobody knows about archive.org and I think it’s pretty cool.
This page on how mechanical watches work with really snappy interactive 3d bits that let you “feel” how the parts do their thing. And the dozens of other articles on other topics also on the site
It’s been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It’s like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.
Project Gutenberg predates the internet. I still remember how their goal was to give away one trillion ebooks.
Project Gutenberg is still around, so I won’t say this is an example of the internet getting worse. But I loathe how it’s come to focus on damnable social media like there’s nothing else of worth out there. Social media, among other things, filled the air with noise that starved many worthwhile projects of attention.
Amd you can download them all as a ZIM
Not sure how known these are, but it’s similar.
https://librivox.org/ public domain audio books
https://freemusicarchive.org/ free access to open licensed music
Librevox! My love!
IIRC, they’ll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don’t get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
There is a modern Library of Alexandria, just fyi, it’s pretty fucking dope.
Seems like they don’t update often? It’s still showing the Artemis II crew.
I honestly don’t know. I always used the website as a start site. But not for a year or two. And whenever i looked at it it was like one or two. Which kinda made it even funnier
I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.
Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too.
cargo install rhuidean-studionice! gave you a star on gh :)
That’s so cool! The name is a nice reference, too
I have absolutely no idea what this is or what it’s supposed to do but it’s incredibly fun to poke at
yo, i know nothing about music but this is cool as fuck
That was fun! 😁
Perfect 4th with linear velocity starts to cascade before they all reconverge with a big bleep. That was my favorite.
The craving of that big bleep is what got me to finally do this. It is so satisfying when they all converge. With multiple subdivisions and the convergence lines on, it is even better.
Oh that is cool! It makes stars and trippy fan blade patterns. It’s neat you can share the link like that to share the patterns too.
It’s like a kaleidoscope that also works for the ears. 😁
Okay that’s ridiculously cool lol
Amazing, thanks 🙏🙏🙏
This is fun!
I wouldn’t say unknown, as it’s a staple of the shortwave and ham radio communities, but websdr.org is a place where people stream software defined radio feeds from around the world. It’s not like a traditional internet radio station where you have an audio stream of a single station. You pick an SDR server hosted by a volunteer, and then you’re given a frequency input, modulation selection, and waterfall display as though you were listening to an actual shortwave radio.
I know it’s well-known because Eastern European stations were swamped during Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Learn how a computer works by building your own from scratch.
I just tried it and it’s so much harder to understand than just playing around with transistors on a breadboard.
Like, I can easily make a nand gate with a couple NPNs and a PNP. But I couldn’t figure out what they wanted me to do with those relays, so I didn’t get past the first task.
Sure, building your own breadboard computer is much better than playing with some website… However transistors and relays are kind of similar in function, they both gate whether current flows.
If you are already familiar with transistors, then I agree those are a simpler introduction, however most regular people don’t know anything about a transistor, and they seem a little bit magical.
A relay however can be grasped by most people just by looking at it in operation. Magnet attracts… Electromagnets only attracts when powered… wire doesn’t conduct when not connected… Wire does conduct when connected… Electromagnet can pull or push wire to either connect or disconnect…
If you want the solution for the first task (building a nand gate with relays), you can see my solution here:
spoiler
Okay, without reading the spoiler:
Does the inductor lead function like the switch on the transistor?
And the two relays: default (on) and default (off): is default (on) like the PNP transistor and default (off) like the NPN?
I think with those two bits of information, I can figure it out. But last night I didn’t have the patience to figure it out by trial and error.
You got it 😉
I went through all the units. They were interesting, and I definitely learned a bunch. I probably won’t remember it all right away, but I at least have a better idea of the overall picture. It’ll be reinforced as I continue my breadboard project, but also supports my theoretical understanding of that project. So I’d say it was worth it.
Imagine my surprise when I got to the end and realized there are multiple paths that branch off from there into new units 😱
It seems the learning shall continue…
Good luck with all the learning 😉 sounds like a fun journey!
Saving this for later! As someone who knows more about software than hardware, this sounds interesting!
I tried it but the game is kind of confusing cause it uses relays instead of transistors. I think it’s more frustrating and would only discourage potential learners.
A better way to get a solid grasp on low-level hardware logic is to just build an eight-bit breadboard computer. Here’s a tutorial: https://eater.net/8bit
I’m working on it now. I’ve only done the first module so far and I’ve already learned so much.
That is only the very first level. Afterwards it switches to gates.
Good to know. I think once I learn how the relays compare to transistors, I can probably figure out the first level.
Considerably more user friendly than Escape from Robotropolis was for me.
Other than everyone reading this, nobody really knows about Lemmy.
lemmy is really really cool.
also piefed
piefed? never heard of it
It’s just a PieFed clone. 🙃
